Meissner

Meissner, Meißner or Meisner may refer to:

Geography
Meissner is the name of the following geographic features:
 * the Meißner (range), an important mountain range in Hesse, Germany
 * Hoher Meißner, the highest peak of the Meißner range
 * Meißner, Hesse, a community in the district Werra-Meißner-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany

Surnames
Meissner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname and its variants include:
 * Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian engineer and physicist
 * Andy Meisner (born 1973), American politician
 * August Gottlieb Meißner (1753–1807), German writer
 * Boris Meissner (1915–2003), German lawyer and social scientist
 * Bruno Meissner (1868–1947), German assyriologist
 * Carl Meissner (1800–1874), Swiss botanist
 * Meisner's Banksia, Australian shrub
 * Carl Meissner (1830–1900), German Latin scholar
 * Constantin Meissner (1854-1942), Romanian teacher
 * Elena Meissner (1867-1940), Romanian feminist
 * Elinor Meissner Traeger (1906-1983), composer
 * Ernst Meisner (born 1982), Dutch dancer and choreographer
 * Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1796–1860), German obstetrician
 * Fred Meissner (1931–2007), American geologist and engineer
 * Freda Meissner-Blau (1927–2015), Austrian politician and activist
 * Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist
 * Meissner's corpuscle, type of mechanoreceptor
 * Meissner's plexus, intestinal nerve plexus
 * Greg Meisner (born 1959), American football player
 * Günter Meisner (1926–1994), German actor
 * Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), German writer and novelist
 * Heike Meißner, (born 1970), German hurdler and runner
 * Heinrich August Meissner (1862–1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha
 * James Meissner (1896–1936), American World War I flying ace
 * Janusz Meissner (1901–1978), Polish writer and aviator
 * Joachim Meisner (1933-2017), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
 * Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
 * Johann Heinrich Meissner (1701-1770), German sculptor and wood carver
 * Joern Meissner (born 1970), German academic and business consultant
 * Karl Meissner (1891–1959), German-American physicist
 * Katrin Meissner (born 1973), German swimmer
 * Kimmie Meissner (born 1989), American figure skater
 * Krzysztof Antoni Meissner (born 1961), Polish theoretical physicist
 * Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), American historian of 20th century China
 * Otto Meissner (1880–1953), head of the Office of the Reich President, Germany
 * Paul Traugott Meissner (1778–1864), Austrian chemist
 * Randy Meisner (1946–2023), founder of the band the Eagles and solo artist
 * Randy Meisner (1978 album), self-titled
 * Randy Meisner (1982 album), self-titled
 * Renate Meissner (born 1950), German sprinter and triple Olympic champion
 * Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting coach
 * Meisner technique, an acting technique
 * Silvio Meißner (born 1973), German football player
 * Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
 * Stefan Meissner (born 1973), German football player
 * Stuart Meissner (born 1962), American federal prosecutor and politician
 * Verne Meisner (1938–2005), American polka musician
 * Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
 * Meissner effect, decay of a magnetic field inside a superconductor
 * Wolf Meissner (born 1969), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian